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Pai’s Birthday

Pai's Birthday

Pai's birthday party at our restaurant. The band is visiting from Thailand and the dancer is our waitress' mother.

Eating Out and Beating the Heat, Isaan Thailand.

We went to try a new grill restaurant and also Jaew Horn shop that opened in the street that runs parallel to Big C here in Ubon Ratchathani. They have these electric grills that you can buy in the supermarkets and electrical stores about the place, usually you would do over coals with a domed grill. This was a small mixed meat that the girls had ordered; they spent a good ten minutes deciding what to order and many discussions with the waitress. This is the meat for the Jaew Horn, a very popular meal in Thailand, it is virtually a soup and usually also cooked on coals in clay pots, this was being done in a hotpot.

Jeffer Steak Ubon Ratchathani Thailand.

The other night we decided to try out a chain store called Jeffer Steak . It opened at Sunee Grand Hotel a little while back. I had been there once with a mate, I didn’t even know it had opened across from Fuji. I apologise for the quality of the pictures as I used my iPhone which has been a disappointing purchase

The Thai Wai and Foreign Tourists

At school last week, we held our regular Thai Manners competition for the students. The students wore traditional Thai clothes and had to visit a number of different bases in order to show that they knew how to perform the proper respect in the correct manner. This reminded me of one of the most common questions that we get in our mailbox. That is the “Thai Wai”

Krung Thep Restaurant Ubon Ratchathani Thailand.

Last night being Monday, Miss Noot decided we needed to go out and celebrate my belated birthday and also that she had finally received her degree. I asked where she was thinking of going and I had hardly finished getting this out of my mouth as “Krung Thep” (some spell Krung Tep) came blurting out of her mouth. This restaurant has become Noot’s favourite, an ex Ubon expat would take his family here and introduced me to the place.

Going to a Thai Restaurant

Whenever we have new foreign teachers at the school, I always take them out to a restaurant as part of their orientation. This is partly to introduce them to my favourite Thai food on a menu. But, I also want to point out to them some of the finer points of Thai dining.

More Thailand ‘Scams’…..

Look, but don’t touch - these Thailand ‘pretty girls’ could be on a scammer) Once known as the Land of Smiles, pitiable Thailand is now turning into the world’s most infamous Land of Scams – and this year in particular we have been inundated again and again and again with lurid stories of sad foreigners been stung for wads of cash. ((Let me start with a disclaimer before writing this blog and that is – yes, there are plenty of real scams going on in Thailand (and as an administrator over at www.bangkokscams.com I know it) but there are also a lot of daft scam claims going around )) A telling tendency has come to light; someone reports an awful new scam, then other folk suddenly jump on the wagon and tell ‘their’ sordid related scam story – which often isn’t a scam at all. Bring on the story of the airport taxi scam and shiver-me-timbers someone’s posting on the Internet forums how they were completely scammed by some scruffy hotel security guard who called them a taxi to the airport at 5 in the morning costing a whopping 400 Baht! Wow… serious scam – better call in the tourist police and have the scammer arrested – as we all know a taxi from downtown to Suvarnaphumi is only about 350 Baht! The we have the off-shoots of the King Power Duty Free scam – instead of happening at the airport however, similar scammers are now operating all over the capital. Pop into a major department store and keep yer beady eye out on that shop assistant, otherwise she’ll be planting eye-liner in your back pocket before threatening you with a year in prison if you don’t cough up a 50,000baht fine